2020 WSC Spotlight – Opening Session Now Available on YouTube and as a Podcast

The Opening Session from the 2020 World Sepsis Congress Spotlight is now available on YouTube (embedded above) and as a Podcast on Apple Podcasts (just search for World Sepsis Congress in your favorite podcast app).

It was chaired by Simon Finfer from Australia and features the following presentations and speakers:

  • WHO Response to Global Health Threats: Sepsis, AMR, and COVID-19 – Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization, Switzerland

  • Entering a New Era for Tackling AMR – Hanan Balkhy, Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization, Switzerland

  • The Next Generation of Environmentally Friendly Antibiotics – Ada Yonath, Nobel Prize Laureate, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

  • Vaccination Saves Lives through Prevention of Sepsis – Seth Berkley, GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, Switzerland

  • The Patient Safety Dimension – Liam Donaldson, WHO Envoy for Patient Safety, United Kingdom

  • The WHO Global Sepsis Epidemiology Report: Towards a Global Sepsis Research Agenda – Alessandro Cassini, World Health Organization, Switzerland

Sessions are released weekly on Tuesdays. The next session will be ‘The Epidemiology and Burden of Sepsis’ on 22 September 2020.

The WSC Spotlight: Sepsis, Pandemics, and Antimicrobial Resistance – Global Health Threats of the 21st Century is co-organized by the World Health Organization and the Global Sepsis Alliance, initiator of World Sepsis Day and World Sepsis Congress.

Marvin Zick